Pocket cigarette roller



NOV. 30, 1937. HQLLANDER 2,100,397

4 POCKET CIGARETTE ROLLER- Filed NOV. 5, 1951 Patented Nov. 30, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PocKE'r CIGARETTE. ROLLER Erik Edward Hollander, Kearny, N. J. Application November 5, 1931, Serial No. 573,099 3 Claims. (01. 131-5)? I. Q

There are many individuals who for various reasons prefer to prepare their own cigarettes to buying them ready made. Few, however, possess the inborn dexterity required to roll their own in a satisfactory manner. The whole operation is a rather complicated one, and also requires the separate storing of cigarette paper, tobacco and paste. Even the few gifted with the faculty of accomplishing results in this respect do not find it any too convenient to produce a cigarette on the spot in the minute desired.

My invention will make it possible for any normal person to transform a quantity of tobacco into a cigarette the very minute it is needed and without more efiort than that required to use a cigarette lighter. V

I will now describe one way of executing the idea. of my invention without, however, thereby limiting in any way the total scope and possible variations of the basic idea of my invention.

Fig. 1 shows a partly sectional view of one form of cigarette roller according to my invention, certain parts being broken away in order to reveal the interior structure, as will be explained below. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the apparatus in opened condition. Fig. 3 isa cross section through the apparatus, taken along line 33 in Fig. 1, looking from left to right.

Referring to the drawing, l is an outer case or shell. 2 is an inside compartment which is used to store a supply of tobacco. 3 is a subcase having sides 23, bottom I9 and hinged lid 20. This subcase is used to store a supply of cigarette papers. Fig. 1 shows case I with the upper side partly broken away on upper and lower left hand corners and on the lower right hand corner. Lid 28 is bent upwardly at its hinged side in the shape of a circular compartment 4 opening interiorly through a slit, and this compartment is used as a paste container. The bending embodies a slight spring action so that the slit is practically closed but does not prevent the entering therethrough of part 1 described below. On lid 20 is also attached the combined paste applicator and paper inserter I consisting, in its simplest form, of a metal sheet or plate that can slide forward and backward when manipulated by the 'springy attachment 8, which is joined thereto by an element that extends through an opening in lid 20.

The above mentioned sliding movement of sheet or plate I has two objects. If plate 1 is slid in one direction it enters the paste compartment 4 and causes some paste to adhere thereto. When slid in the other direction, plate 1 frees one .55 paper at a time from the grip of the fine paper studs or prongs 6, and. forces this paper into the slit of the circularly bent end 5 of part 23 which contains the combined paper roller and tobacco filler l2, which latter device can be rotated approximately one turn and moved laterally of the '5 case or shell. Filler l2, shown in Fig.1 with parts broken away, consists of a split tube with crowned or forked portion at its inner end; the tube slidingly operates through a contraction ring I3. Filler I2 is also provided with a retain- 10 ing arrangement. l8 consisting of a piece of metal wire bent into the shape of a hook that will slide laterally in the tubular compartment 5 until'it snaps into groove l'l'. At its exterior end, filler tube I2 is provided with a head or finger piece I 5. l5 The crowned or forked inner end portion of filler l2 serves to better grip the tobacco for pushing the latter into a formed paper tube, than would be the case if this portion were plain or blunt. The operation of rolling a cigarette is per- 20 formed as follows: After a cigarette paper has been given an edging of paste and moved through the slit of circularly bent portion 5,.above described, it is brought in reach for therolling action of combined roller and filler l2. By twisting or rotating filler I2 approximately one turn, the cigarette paper, guided by the crowned end 7 portion of filler l2 and by the contraction ring [3,

is rolled and thus wrapped around filler. I2 so that a closed tubular receptacle of paper is formed for the reception of the tobacco. After this, filler I2 is moved longitudinally outward in a lateral direction relative to the case, and is during this movement, slightly squeezed together by the contraction ring l3, so that the paper is left intact 35 within compartment 5. When filler l2 isthus retracted, a space is left into which tobacco is free to enter through the opening l6 from inside compartment 2, thus lodging some tobacco in front of filler I2, so that, when filler I 2 is moved in- 40 ward, this tobacco is passed through contraction ring l3, which acts like a funnel, and is thereupon: I, pushed'into the paper tube. When the paper tube has been filled with tobacco, by repeating the last described operations two or three times, 45

the head or finger piece I5 is pressed all the way in against the case, whereby the completed ciga rette is pushed through an opening ordinarily closed by the hinged cap I0. 7

The apparatus can also be used without the 5 outside casing. A bag containing tobacco is, in such event, tightened around opening [6;

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. In a device of the kind described, means. to

provide a tubular compartmenthaving an en-.

trance slit along its side through which a cigarette paper may be entered, a combined paper roller and tobacco filler in the form of a longitudinally split tubular member adapted to be both rotated and reciprocated in said tubular compartment, a contraction ring at one end of said tubular compartment through which said tubular member moves, and means providing a passage through which modicums of tobacco may be deposited between the retracted tubular member and said contraction ring for the purposes described.

2. In adevice of the kind described, means to provide a tubular compartment having an entrance slit along its side through which a cigarette paper may be entered, a combined paper roller and tobacco filler in the form of a longitudinally split tubular member adapted to be both rotated and reciprocated in said tubular compartment, a contraction ring at one end of paste-holding compartment in the casing, a movable plate mounted in the casing, means for manipulating the plate to apply paste to a cigarette paper and insert said paper in the tubular compartment, a cigarette forming member in the tubular compartment, and means for contracting and withdrawing the cigarette-forming member.

ERIK EDWARD HOLLANDER. 

